A judge says he's willing to unseal some critical depositions in the long-running lawsuit over the unsolved slaying of a Detroit stripper.

Those interviews include one of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was accused of sandbagging the investigation of Tamara Greene's death. But there's a caveat: federal Judge Gerald Rosen said Thursday that he'll give Kilpatrick and others an opportunity to object to any unsealing.

The deposition of ex-Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox likely will remain sealed. Cox had investigated whether Greene danced at a party at the mayoral mansion in 2002.